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Francisco Segovia

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313 total appearances

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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

That's a good question.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

It's a pretty tricky question.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

I...

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

Let's not be naive that the administration has an agenda and has an anti-immigrant agenda.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

And obviously, it's going to use all the institutions under his power to execute his agenda, to demonstrate to whoever he promised that was going to fulfill that promise.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

So now...

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

Like I said before, this is not the first time that ICE immigration enforcement arrest people.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

It has been happening all the time.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

What we are seeing right now is heavily armed individuals, mask as you said, going to places and stopping people based on their appearance.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

And no civil society should allow that, assuming that because you are a brown skin, you are undocumented.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

There are documented cases of going into a Target store, arresting two US citizens.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

Number one, I will say to everyone, including you, know your history.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

know the history of the United States, understand the role of the United States around the world, but particularly in Latin America, and how the US policy in Latin America has been playing the role of being a destabilizing force that provokes migration.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

If the United States has a pretty good memory, they wouldn't repeat the same thing that they do oftentimes.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

But we don't teach enough or good history.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

We don't teach how, for instance, just a recent example, the situation in Venezuela.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

The Venezuelans...

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

regardless of Maduro being a good or bad person.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

But Venezuela was going through some challenges.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Minneapolis Feels ‘Like Being in a Civil War’

The United States participated in creating more chaos in Venezuela.